USCT Company K, 1st Regiment

Jesse Tarlton was born somewhere in Virginia around 1824.^[1] Nothing else is known of his life prior to his service in the Union Army. His name is sometimes spelled “Tarlton” and sometimes “Talton.” He was drafted into Company K of the 31^st USCT in Washington D.C. on October 31, 1864. He had been working as a Laborer.